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EarthTrek Gravestone Project – Weathering Study
January 19, 2012 | EarthTrek

“This project aims to map the location of a graveyards around the globe and then use marble gravestones in those graveyards to measure the weathering rate of marble at that location.” Quoted from the project website.


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